The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-30
CURRENT EVENTS.


The taxpayers Of Newport, X. ]. Tuesday
voted to invest another 500, 0OOln the improve
ment Of the city sewerage system.
A Buffalo lady recently went to Boston and
purchased the famous Nedder drawings for
the Rubaujat of Omar Khayvane.
The stockmen Of Arizona claim that they
have been Disseminated against by the legis'
lature, and haye organized TO secure the re-
peal OF obnoxious laws
postonce employe says that the gummed
surface of a postage stamp should never be
placed on the tongue. Molsten the other side
OF the stamp and the corner of the envelope,
or the latter only, and the stamp will stick for
all 1t is worth.
big black hog owned by a farmer near
Montgomery, Pa, has a strange aversion to
men who make IA living by fishing. He has
chased number of men away from the ponds
on Its owners farm and already this fall has
bitten three fisherman quite severely.
The house now being constructed at Great
Darlington, Mass, by Mrs. Mark Hopkins
Seare will cost when completed S5,0OO.O0O
Mr.. Searle, who recently became the husband
Of the famous widow, was the master mind in
the construction Of the magnificent dwell
ing
When Miss Sadie Aikens, of Reeves Ga,
sloped the other night, she took with her the
family Watchdog After the marriage ccre'
mony had been performed she wrote note to
her parents acqualnting them with the fact
and mplorlng their forgiveness, tied 1t to the
dogs collar, and sent him home.
Elias Wayman, who was born near Albany
in 1888, recently walked from Youngstown, o.,
TO Cleveland, quite tramp for a man 10i
years old. He has been an inveterate smoker
of tobacco for ninety-four years and says he
doesn't know how old he might have been II
he had never used the weed.
tits said that apples are so cheap In Norwich,
Conn, that a barrel filled with them is worth
no more than an empty one. The fruit Is al
lowed to rot under the trees. The very best
fruit, however, brings 40 cents barrel. A
new name has been invented for cider by the
farmers; 1t is Orchard tea.n
AT Smiths Falls, town situated somewhere
In Canada, the other day was born a baby
whose parents are much older than fathers and
mothers usually are In such cases The happy
papa celebrated his seventy-iifth birthday only
u few days ago while mamma will celebrate
her hftieth year of life next month
mule deer aud lallow buck, whose pens
In the geological gardens were separated by a
fence got together the other night and were
found in the morning with their horns inter
locked in deadly combat. II required the ex-
ertlons Of three keepers to separate them, and
when this was accomplished, the deer chased
the men from the PEN The keepers trumphed
In the end.
During several years past, hundreds Of coup
les have been married In a house on the west
ern borders Of Warren county, Pennsylvania,
under the impression that they had gone into
Ohio and might thus evade the license law.
The county commissioners declare that the
house is in Pennsylvania, and that the coup
les must be married over again If they wish TO
be legally united In the bonds OF matrimony.
The city of Augusta, Me-, Is now the defend
ant in twenty-seycn suits for false imprison.
ment brought by members of the Salvation
army. In one of these the damages are laid at
several thousands Of dollars, the complaint
alleging that death resulted from the imprison-
ment. 1t is matter of rumor that II these suits
are successful two hundred others will be
brought against other Maine cities and in
corporated towns.
wcll-known and consistent member OF
one OF the churches of Albany, Ga, needing
$50 in business emergency after banking
hours, asked merchant for 1t, promising to
return 1t In the morning. The transaction
was seen by drummer from this city, and his
experience led him to remark: "If there's
little game Of poker going on tonight I'd
nightly like 10 sit In for while" The
church meuber is careful how he borrows
money now
One who caimes to know OF what he is
speaking says that sealsklns are expensive,
not because they are scarce, but because the
trade limits the supply. II all the skins that
could be taken were poured on the market the
fur would become so common that 1t would
cease TO be desired by the wealthy. So the
seal catchers agree upon the total number
that they will put upon the market, and they
make their report TO the furrlers Of London
and Paris, who meet each spring and decide
upon prices.
The Lebe gun, which is to be used heresf-
ter in the French army, is repeatlng-rlne
throwing a small steel pointed ball, which is
propelled by newly invented smokeless DOW
der The balls revolve at the rate OF one thous-
and revolutions minute, and are effective at a
distance OF mile and half. In recent tests
bullets at five hundred yards penetrated a
brick wall eight inches; aud It is said, that
at a mile they viii pass through a man as
easily as at ten PAGES. The cartridges are so
small that a soldier can carry two hundred
rounds One hundred and sixteen rounds
has heretofore been the maximum.
Thirty years ago Edward CrItlsnd, young
artist OF Cincinnati, exhibited painting Of
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